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Enjoy quiet time with time-honored wool appliqué! Add warmth and texture to your home with wool appliqué. Sewing in the popular folk-art style, you'll stitch fifteen projects, including thirteen heirloom-worthy table mats and two versions of an Advent calendar. Learn how reverse appliqué brings depth and color to your handwork without the bulk of additional layers. This guide offers advice on choosing and using wool (even scraps!), plus valuable...

Just 15 minutes to perfection! Learn new appliqué skills and get pinpoint accuracy more easily than ever before in this comprehensive visual guide with a bonus CD of full-size template patterns. Anyone can learn Jeanne's stress-free process and use her simplified, success-oriented methods, even if you've been shy in the past about trying appliqué. Seasoned quilters and sewers will also love using these new techniques for more complex designs....

Create stunning wall quilts, table toppers, and pillows using wool appliqué with these projects by the bestselling author of Calendar Quilts. Cozy up to wool appliqué with fifty colorful garden blocks to mix and match! Bestselling author Kim Schaefer shares seven easy wool appliqué projects to teach you embroidery basics or to bring your hand stitching to the next level. Layer luscious flowers, birds, and butterflies of wool on top of cotton fabric,...

Sewing with luxurious felted wool, discover the secrets to dimensional appliqué that will add depth and drama to your home decor. Take your embroidery skills to the next level with eight colorful projects including penny rugs, pincushions, and pillows. Easy-to-learn techniques such as thread-matching, needle-slanting, and fabric-layering will help you achieve clean and sharp lines every time! This clear, visual guide includes links to printable,...

Turn bold and unusual fabrics into stunningly beautiful quilts with this guide to creative yet surprisingly simple patterns. Fabrics that feature unique, colorful, or graphic designs can be as irresistible as they are challenging. How do you cut and arrange such beautiful fabric to use in a quilt? Art quilter Aletha Ballard provides the answer in Maverick Quilts. Alethea combines straightforward instruction on the basics of quilting with ten versatile...

Presents an introduction to the basics of quilt making, covering such topics as fabric selection, stitches, cutting, patchwork settings, appliqué techniques, borders, and finishing methods.

Leisure Arts Quick Weekend Quilts eBook- 45 fast and fun projects with time-saving tips and planners. Immerse yourself in your favorite craft this weekend with projects like: floating squares quilt, cups in the cupboard wall hanging, wine lover gift bag, fashion bed queen quilt, kitchen cuties ensemble, kitschy kitchen decor and more. Includes step-by-step instructions, planners, diagrams, color and pattern recommendation and more for each project...

"Material Obsession's Kathy Doughty takes the reader through her signature design and fabric selection process as well as provides step-by-step instructions for traditional needle-turn appliqué, Broderie Perse, Boro-style appliqué, paper piecing, hand quilting, and other techniques. The book includes 8 projects with full-size patterns as well as a design exercise that gives the readers valuable advice on how to pursue their own quilt designs"--...

Observe the rules of the road and share your love of hand-sewn keepsakes with the boys in your life. Boys of all ages love their cars--celebrate their devotion to all things transit and stitch up some fun things for them to wear and use. Learn a new style of scrap appliqué using raw edge and reverse appliqué techniques. From toddlers to teens, boys (and girls too!) will love showing off these cool street sign and traffic signal designs. Full-sized...

"This book contains 12 projects all in Kim's whimsical, contemporary, folk-art style for experienced or beginning stitchers. The backgrounds in the projects are constructed using cotton fabrics and the appliqué pieces are felted wool"-- Provided by publisher.